errrr...yeah...I think I used to prefer your poetry to the random madness. It does break up the forum monotony, although I have been know to like my 'asphalt' from time to time Sx
Yes, it will. At 40 degrees it's not quite flip flop weather but colder and wetter sharper rough gravel surface will poke more easily and more into the soles. More ouch than warmer weather, but even better for getting used to it before the hot weather. Rougher and sharper also isn't slippery like smooth blacktop, so no slip and fall risks. Also fully cleans the soles of any ground in or burned in dirt, like a beach walk, without needing to walk through grass.
Going barefoot in the wet and cold Requires an attitude that's bold! Tho going barefoot is a perk Most people think that I'm a blah blah....
Blah, blah, the familiarity returns... Bare sole on summer pavement burns: BarefootOnAsphaltHeat will teach us Or, if not, he'll rightly preach us! Go barefoot 'cause it feels so damn good!
Yes. In fact, my current avatar, that I will keep for now, is after almost an hour of hot asphalt walking during the hottest afternoon hours 1:20pm to 2:15pm including standing for a minute before walking for a minute, when that got too hot, standing for 30 seconds before walking for 30 seconds. Soles were grated with the rasp and followed up with roughness from the Grillstone before starting out walking. No heat relief while standing, even taking two steps to make it hotter for the standing duration if the heat started to equalize or become less. The goal was heat training, and my soles feel slightly cooling off but without stinging, are a bit stiff and feel more tender on rough, but otherwise calluses just burned white and no blisters. High 90 to low 100 degrees F might be different, but once again home is just tens of steps away if I deliberately push that hot to blisters. Otherwise, keeping the constant standing/walking for about 10 minutes and just below the blister threshold is a very good warmup before over 20 minutes non-stop on unshaded asphalt during the same hours... one way walk. Later during the summer months might even be hotter than heat waves during the earlier months, so I've got to get the soles ready. Not so much tsss hot for now as it is slower "roasting" of the soles, but with enough standing heat tolerance soon even tsss hot might be standable for longer, even if it needs heat relief movements. I've done the neighborhood blacktop streets a couple of times last summer when up the steepest hill was so hot I had to walk in shade or momentarily wear flip flops, but this year I will just tsss tough it out because it's only a couple of hundreds of steps home if I burn my soles very tender or even blister.
